32 Die in Colombia Bus Inferno, Almost All Are Children

18 Survive With Injuries, Including the Driver

By

Dan Molinski

Updated May 19, 2014 4:18 p.m. ET

BOGOTÁ—Investigators on Monday are trying to determine whether smuggled, unregulated gasoline may have caused a bus in northern Colombia to burst into flames, killing 32 people aboard, nearly all of them young children.

The bus was returning from a religious event Sunday afternoon in the town of Fundación, a cattle and farming community south of the coastal tourist city of Santa Marta, when the blaze erupted. Some 18 people survived...